Butter Sauce, Simple

Ingredients

• One ounce of butter
• one ounce of flour
• half a pint of hot water
• a saltspoonful of salt

Method

1. 1

   Melt butter in a saucepan, add flour, stir until bubbling, then pour in hot water and salt.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Catherine Owen's new cook book .. (1885) by Helen Alice (Matthews) Nitsch, page 113. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

BUTTEK SAUCE, SIMPLE. One ounce of butter, one ounce of flour ; put the butter in a small, thick saucepan, marbleized, or iron (never use tin for sauce); when melted put in the flour, stirring it, let it bubble, stirring all the time till it is a fine yellow, it takes one minute usually ; then pour in half a pint of hot water and a saltspoonf ul of salt. Using milk instead of water makes it a simple white sauce. ALLEMAKDE SAUCE. One ounce of butter put in a thick saucepan; when melted add one ounce of flour, stir them, let them Sauces. 225 bubble one minute; then pour in— stirring all the while — half a pint of hot broth or white stock, or if you have not it, hot water and the liquid from a can of mushooms. Let it boil, take from the fire, wait a minute and stir in gradually the yolks of three eggs, a saltspoon of salt, a quarter one of pepper ; return it to the fire, stirring carefully; it must get to the boiling point, or the eggs will not be cooked, yet on no account boil, or it will curdle ; when it is off the fire, stir in a tablespoonful more butter. If it should be too thick, add a very little Iroth or hot water. SAUCE SUPREME. Make an Allemunde as above ; add to it two table- spoonfuls of butter and three of stock ; stir, and bring it to the boiling point at once; squeeze in a few drops of lemon juice ; use at once. POULETTE. Make Allemande sauce and add to it a glass of white wine. If anything is to be cooked in it, as sweetbreads or chicken, leave out the eggs till last : they are some- times omitted altogether. CAPER SAUCE. To half a pint of butter sauce put a aessert-spoonful of capers — not chopped, it spoils the appearance — and a teaspoonful of the vinegar, a saltspoonful of salt

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